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As sunrise showed above the ridge, the fog painting show started<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The show had another act the next time on the summit with more sunlight and thicker fog<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After the sun made it through the fog, other art works took the camera<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Typically, when the valley is fog-socked, the weather is much cooler. Today, mid 40s at the bottom and mid-50s above the fog. Walking above the fog was like an art museum gallery; every where I looked, a masterpiece of sun, fog and trees. The absence of humans kept the peace all day long until a pair of red-tail Hawks screeched and danced above the meadows where spider webs held the dew past mid-morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Another typical Pisgah ramble staying on the east side as much as possible and avoiding the same trail in same direction – that last top section of Trail 2 is hard to avoid without too much time on that terrible gravel road. I touched the summit 4x and ended a tad over 20 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n